Cold, Warm, and then Cold again

I wouldn't worry about the sago either. They're cold hardy. I've seen pictures of sago with snow on them. Just cut off the burnt leaves. I don't like the look of sagos that are just left to grow wild and never get pruned anyways.

Ironic you should mention the snow. We got some snow tonight, and I had to go recover the Sago after the wind blew it off, LOL. So my sago had some snow on it. I hate the cold, but I guess if it's gotta be cold, heck... why not let it snow.

yep... just got off facebook with friends from lexington.... to bad they were gonna have tomorrow off anyway

keonikale...I think I may just have to go put on some xmas music with the snow falling outside! but then the kids and my BF would wake up and think I really was nuts....so I just went outside with the cats...they seem to be having fun chasing the flakes...LOL

We had to go out and walk in it for a while (took the puppy out too, she didn't seem to even notice)... I love the sound of it falling in the woods. These were some of the biggest snow flakes I've ever seen. Some seriously were the size of a silver dollar - just huge. It was fun while it lasted. Now it's just cold again, LOL.

We just have misty, drizzly cold and dank. :(

Yeppers .. It's really miserable here .. my rain gauge registered 3/4's of an inch. In spite of the cold, some of the seeds I planted are starting to come up in the greenhouse. I've had enough winter and am ready for spring!!!

X

It's Jan. you know. It's supposed to get a little cold. I have seeds a sprouting myself. No green house, maybe next year I'll have a little one. I hoping the kids don't get in my seedlings this year. Last year we had an incident where my son tried to help me water the plants. Blew the dirt right out of many of the pots. LOL.

CoreHHI: A little cold is ok, if it'd just stay above freezing and maybe not frost so often, that's be great. :)
My wintersown seeds are sprouting.
Deb

our campus flooded today, but thankfully it stopped before i had to walk thru it to get to my classes.... we have terrible drainage at my school

Wait till we get a rainy summer with a hurricane or two going by. Basicly everything in Bluffton is new and the drianage hasn't been tested out. I have no doubt whole subdivisions will be flooded. Some of the land they built on doesn't drain well at all. Can't imagine building a bunch of houses on that land helped.

You have to wonder why better studies aren't done on things like that. On a related note here in Cola. - they want to build houses in the flood plain of the river. There's a good idea.

The problem here is the land is flat. The "low country" should be a clue. There are rivers and swamp land all around us. When they lay out the subdivisions they don't take into account that a 1/2 mile away there is a swamp that is going to fill up with water and the water is more likely to be heading towards the houses than helping drain them. We have a very high water table also. I don't do drainage for a living so I'm not sure exactly what goes on. I'm wondering about Hampton Lake which is a large shallow man made lake. I just picture that flooding big because they basically built a water reservoir surrounded by swamps.

Keon-right and then they want high premium insurance rates too I bet...or for some who don't know better they don't get the flood ins. and get screwed in the end...crazy thing the way politics and money swing the economy into absurd things...

Flood insurance is a goverment program and it doesn't cost much but you have to know a couple of things. First flood insurance only covers $275,000, probably not a problem for most. Second is the flood ins. only covers rising water. Storm blows your house away that's different but I haven't got to that. The second problem is flood ins. is grouped in different zones of risk and you don't always need to get ins. to get a mortgage. I'm in fllood zone C I think. I'm 22 feet elavation, 1 mile west of the ocean and less than a mile from a large river to the north and south of me. I didn't need to get flood ins. but I did. It only costs something like $300 a year and I'm insured for the whole $275k.

Some people are just so cheap they won't get the flood insurance unless they're forced to. If you don't have a mortgage you don't have to get any insurance.

I don't know about upstate but on the coast they break the ins. policy into parts now with wind and hail being a seperate policy. In my case my policy is old enough that it's all included. That's where things just get out of hand. Wind blows your roof off and the rain pours in. If you have wind and hail your covered, if not, your not. Your roof blows off but the water rises up from a river 5ft in your house. You have wind and hail but not flood ins. Your not covered.

All I know is make sure your covered for all possible events that can happen. Don't be cheap. It's like people who get the minium car ins and then hit a $70,000 car. It happens all the time around here.

Core...well aren't you just the flood ins. queen there lady...LOL next time I need ins. advice I am writing you...do you do that for a living or are you just well versed...I am quite impressed!

I can be wiped out by the weather (hurricanes) so I pay attn. Also the crowd around here pays attn for the same reason so we have a decent grip on ins. BTW what I said might not be right but you get the idea.

I've BEEN wiped out by hurricanes (3), so can definitely second checking your coverage :(. In fact, please make sure you're covered for "replacement value", it's worth the extra cost. But, when CoreHHI wrote;

"Some people are just so cheap they won't get the flood insurance unless they're forced to."

I'm not so sure it's a matter of being "cheap". Money is very tight for many people these days. It isn't always easy to make the right choices, but priorities can differ. I was forced to have flood insurance in Florida, and there was never any chance of the _buildings_ flooding. I saw no need to cover the property against damage, I knew when I bought it, that it had areas of swamp, so I didn't use that in a way that rising water would permanently damage. I could have better spent that insurance money elsewhere.

I don't carry it now, either, but then, at 522 feet, and at the top of a hill, I don't need it. Really:).

I feel fortunate in the flooding departmetn. living in SUmmerville. There are swamps all around, and rivers, but the town is on a pine ridge - so no worries there. The thing that worries me about "H" season, is the darn Pine trees! They blow over at the slightest gust, it seems and usually, right onto someone's roof.

ANyway, we sure do need this rain. I could do without the accompanying chill tho.

More snow tomorrow it looks like.

It snowed here this afternoon during my sons b'day party...but I could't drag his friends away from the xbox..by the time they went to look it was raining...then it turned to snow again...they are calling for snow late tonite and tomorrow...but I do believe the weather forecasters around here use the quarter technique...they toss a quarter into the air...and heads it's partly cloudy and tails its partly sunny LOL it all seems to be the same thing to me...

Just steady rain here today. 1" since this time yesterday.

No snow tonight for us... weather folks totally botched that one. Rain moved out before the cold air even moved in. Would have been nice to see it again. But there's always next month, which seems to always be one of the coldest here.

Been a lot colder than normal lately, just in general. These teens and 20's can go back north anytime now.

Sigh, it snowed for several hours, on and off, but none of it stuck. Sigh.

Well I've had enough winter .. time for spring. My cerius cactus appears to have survived another night in the 20's with no protection.

X

Keonikale: I'm with you. Forecast down this way is for 19F overnight. I hope that's the last we see of the teens!
X: Me, too. I'm SO over winter. Every year about this time I get so antsy for it to be gone. Looking forward to your cerius' bloom.

Total of 3" of rain this past week though, so that's a good thing. Some Narcissus and Daffs are up.

All my palms are looking a bit pekid. :(

Uggh, I was in Raleigh this weekend at a dog thing that was mostly OUTSIDE. It snowed from 3 o'clock on yesterday afternoon, and this morning was all icy. This morning it started at 32F and then dropped from there and was breezy. At lunch it said it was 27F but felt like 18F because of the wind chill. I stopped looking at the forecast at that point.

I don't like winter... ;*>

Jenny

Yikes, I just saw it was calling for 15F here tonight too. Argh, I hope the ground doesn't freeze too bad. My EE's might not make it.

Sigh .. it's about a quarter to eleven and my outside thermometer reads 29 degrees!

X

We're in the 30's. Dogs didn't even hang out, just out and back in. LOL. Wussies.

it says it's 33 out but I tell ya it feels more like 15...I am officially climatized to the south now...who would know I grew up in the Adirondacks skiing every weekend...

Core I am right there with your dogs in wussy land tonite...

Greenhouse temp was 43 - turned on the other heater and will just open the electric bill with one eye...LOL

Where in the Adirondacks? I've spent some time around that area.

Plattsburgh....it's right across from Burlington VT on Lake Champlain..awesome place to visit...but the snow gets so veryyyyy old...

I've been there. Hope you don't have any childern that look like me. LOL. I knew a few people at SUNY.

Core..you are too funny...I have 4 and only one was 'created' back home in P'burgh while on vacation...Our town was pretty hopping until they closed down the Air Force base a few years back...all that base housing stood empty for eons...such a shame and a waste with so many homeless people...it's weird going back home now...everything is so changed...

We lived very close to the SUNY...we had a few frat houses two houses down...but for the most part back then they were pretty quite thru the week and only kicked it up on holidays and saturdays LOL If you remember anything about the area at all we lived across the street from St Johns Catholic School right before you hit the main campus...

anywho...good talking to you and are you going to the RU in May...Can't remember if I asked you that when we were posting on your pictures of caddyshack...pic 2 is funnier then heck...

Where is the May round up? I thought about going to the GA one but I'm a little afraid they'll be a lot of little clicks and a bit of an age factor. I would have to go solo because of small childern at home. There is a lady across the street from me who would go but her husband would have a heart attack if we did that. LOL. The guys around here don't like me hanging out with their women. I don't know why because they're not very good looking. LOL. In my own mind I'm an Adonis. Haha. I better stop.

Most likely the RU is to far away for me. I don't have much time on my hands lately.

I think you have too much time on your hands........LOL

Another verrrrrrry cold night; it was 34 earlier this morning but it has dropped to 32.7 now. So much for the special little bubble around my house, this winter has burst that one for sure. I thought the Farmer's Almanac called for a warmer than average winter!

Core,....you're so funny....The Appalacian roundup is May 3rd on Lake Julian in Asheville, this will be my first year going there too and there are several others posting right now on the trade list that this would make it their first year too...how young are you that you think there will be an age factor... :)~~~ My birthday says I'm 46 but my kids say I act like I'm 20 so I think that's a good thing in that I still like to goof off - my last memorable exp. with my youngest was in the fall when we were adding to an existing flower bed and we dug a 3' hole for an Arborvitae...we filled it with water and proceeded to have a mud fight......like my dad always said "The trick in life is to never grow up...that way you keep a fresh perspective on everything"

Yes and no on the, too much time on my hands. The whole reason I found Dave's was I needed a hobby around the house. I've always liked nice landscaping when done by someone who knows what their doing so I looked around my yard and decided I found a hobby that could keep me busy for years.

What prompted that was I had to watch midgets with bad personal hygiene and low motor skills. It really hit home that life had changed for me when a midget called Billy soiled himself. He then took off all his clothes and was running around crying with pop stuck to him. Had to laugh but .......you got to be kidding me? Counted them up one day and we have 22 kids under 13 on our street. Tinkering around the yard basically let's me keep an eye on the mob but I really can't go anywhere without leaving the kiddies off with someone else. Which is fine but everyone has a few of their own so that doesn't last long. On a good note almost everyone will be able to swim this year so at least I don't have to watch the lagoons like a hawk. Snakes may get them but they won't be drowning.

Actually I need to buy some dinning room furniture. My dining room has room for 10 but has never had furniture in it. LOL. Had a pool table in it for 4 years then it became the kids’ playroom. Kids were moved upstairs because of the noise and they were old enough not to tumble down the stairs by accident. I would like to go to the Hickory area and buy some furniture. It really is less expensive buying up there. Asheville isn't far away. Hmmm, could do two things.